Dr Patrick Maume is a long-standing member of the DIB editorial team (joined 2003), and has contributed more than 500 entries, including many on significant political, literary and religious figures of the twentieth century, with particular reference to Northern Ireland. He is a graduate of University College Cork (Bachelors degree in English and history, Masters in history) and Queen's University Belfast (QUB) (doctorate in politics, post-graduate cert in higher education teaching) and has taught history and politics in University College Dublin and QUB (where he held three research fellowships 1993–4, 1995–8, and 1998–2001), and has published countless articles and book chapters on nineteenth and twentieth-century Irish history, as well as biographies of Daniel Corkery and D. P. Moran.
Connellan, Thomas (1856–1917), catholic priest turned protestant evangelist, was eldest son of James Connellan (1814–96), farmer at Geevagh, Sligo, and his wife Honora. After studying at Summerhill College in Sligo (which he greatly disliked) and at Maynooth, he was ordained a…